Forward Deployed Engineer (m/f/d)_3096

Allianz; Unterföhring; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus scheme

Pension

Employee shares program

Employee discounts

Career development & learning programs

Flexible working & healthcare support

Job summary

Allianz Technology is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to integrate AI into real business processes across Allianz landscapes. You will collaborate with local and global domain experts, reuse AI building blocks, and ship production-ready solutions spanning backend, frontend, data, and operations.

You will work in a hybrid model, engaging with AI teams and IT partners to move from discovery to deployment at speed, while prioritizing security, compliance, and scalable patterns.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineer with production-grade code across a large stack.
• Experience with cloud-native stacks, DevOps, and Kubernetes.
• English fluency and ability to collaborate with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Translate business problems into production AI solutions.
• Design and implement custom services, integrations, and agents.
• Ship solutions across backend, frontend, data/ML, and operations while ensuring security and reliability.

Skills

Full-stack development

Cloud-native / DevOps

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python

APIs

Vector databases

LLM integration

Prompt engineering

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Git

Job description

About the Job

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you are the technical core of a squad that brings AI into real business processes. You, partner directly with Allianz Operating Entities (OEs) and ecosystem, building production-ready solutions ideally by readapting existing Minimum Viable Solutions (MVS) and AI Building Blocks or by creating custom components and solutions for the OE's. Together with the AI Engagement Manager you form a team with local IT team or global vertical team for their know-how of core systems and customer pain-points - to move from discovery to deployment at speed.

What you do

• Be integrated with local and global domain experts to understand problems and translate them into production AI solutions
• Reuse and extend MVS/AI Building Blocks to design and implement custom services, integrations, and agents when necessary
• Ship solutions across different stacks (backend, frontend, data/ML, ops), landscapes and setups, owning the path from development to production
• Ensure security, compliance, and reliability; set up CI/CD, containerization, and IaaC as needed.
• Document, operationalize, and scale by contributing new patterns back to the central building-block catalogue to one solution powers the next!

What you bring

• Hands-on software engineer with a track record of shipping production code across a big stack- backend, frontend, data, and ops.
• Comfortable operating in unfamiliar codebases, domains, and partner environments; identifying issues and delivering value.
• Practical experience with cloud-native stacks and DevOps (CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes), testing/observability, and secure coding in regulated settings.
• Working knowledge of the modern data/AI stack (e.g., Python, APIs, vector databases) and integrating LLM/agent frameworks; prompt-first mindset.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; pairs effectively with an AI Engagement Manager and executes with thorough documentation.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent professional experience
• Fluency in English

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

104575 | IT & Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform, and innovate the infrastructure, applications, and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization - from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centers, networks, and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace individuals of all gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ethnicities, ages, nationalities, religions, disabilities, and philosophies of life. Ultimately, our greatest strength as a company lies in the unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds our employees contribute.